Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This autumn, amid all these, NBC has 1) elected to fight FCC's regulations (TIME, Oct. 20), 2) distinguished itself for its work in short-wave broadcasts to Europe (TIME, Nov. 3), 3) proved its responsible and impartial conduct in awarding time to both isolationists v. interventionists (TIME...
...appearances of an army breaking its neck for the sake of quick victory. It stormed the Crimean Peninsula, hurled itself against Moscow's defenses, cleaned up industrial Kharkov, paused seemingly to gather its coils for a deadly new strike at Rostov-on-Don. These might be the final autumn battles...
They found a good sugar-beet crop waiting for them, but all the sugar factories wrecked. They set women to harvesting standing wheat and rye, but they had to harvest with scythes and horses instead of modern machinery. They tried to get autumn sowing done, but only put in from 5% to 7% of normal seedings...
...started early (August), to make up for lost time. London's 128,000 pupils, a third of normal, were on double sessions because two-thirds of London's schools were bomb-or fire-damaged. The teacher shortage is serious: 18,000 schoolmasters have enlisted. British schools this autumn plugged two new subjects: U.S. history and first aid. The carrying of gas masks is still compulsory for all school children...
...This autumn the Philharmonic raided the Janssen Symphony, captured its first cellist and two of its Heifetzes. A program annotator and a lady sponsor, each connected with both orchestras, were told to make their choice. Conductor Janssen, sole backer of his orchestra, seemed unperturbed. His audience last week was near capacity (1,290). He had four more concerts scheduled (and four for children), with two newsworthy world premieres up his sleeve-new works by Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky...